In Nerima. Nodoka sat on the porch of her home, she'd been keeping an eye on 'her son' like she had been doing since the day they arrived in Nerima, keeping out of sight, covering her tracks well so not even Nabiki would know she lived in the area. "Just perfect, they took him back" Nodoka muttered to herself.

"Look I'm sorry Nodoka but I didn't stand a chance against them and you know it" Genma replied as he approached his wife, he'd been keeping his distance from Ranma, he was terrified by how much stronger he was and that his strength and power was still growing.

"I know, but you should have done something, we both knew what would happen when he turned seventeen, all you had to do was slip a potion into his food, fully destroying the mer side of him and stopping him from achieving his destiny, now it's going to be even harder to destroy his mer side, we need him to despise it, hate with all his being just for the potion to work, so either we need a stronger potion or a miracle and if you can't do it then…well you know what I'll do" Nodoka replied as she grew a dark smirk.

"But Nodoka last time you used that thing you nearly destroyed all reality and I had to endure hell, training that brat, to get him to despise his existent so we could crush his mer side along with his destiny" Genma replied.

"I know and I'll do it again but next time it'll be worse, in order to get the power we desire one of them must despise their existence so much that the mer is easily shattered and we can claim the power we desire" Nodoka replied, her smirk getting darker.

"But how, for you to use that thing we need the eclipse and the stars to align like last time as well as the blood of the victim and even then it risks shattering this reality and taking us with it and now the more Ranma learns to control the power of the mer the more he loves it and the more he loves his life it will take little more than a week to undo my seventeen years of work and soon he'll have his powers back again and we won't have a hope of beating him and the same goes for getting his blood, that thing isn't the only thing that is at it's strongest when the eclipse lines with the stars, that's when the power of mer is at its strongest and most deadly" Genma replied, beginning to sweat remembering the last time Nodoka used the Katana Of Reality on Ranma it nearly destroyed them all, the ocean threatened to swallow all the land, it was by sheer luck they got his blood on the blade and changed reality.

"Don't worry we did it once and we can do it again" Nodoka replied simply as she smirked as she glanced down at the 'Saotome family honour blade'.

Meanwhile…

Ranma was getting comfortable in his new room at the palace, there was a king sized bed , portraits on the walls of family members, a fireplace, above it hung a portrait of his father and his mother, holding him as a baby, this caused Ranma's anger to rise as he stared at the portrait, thinking about what Genma and Nodoka had taken him away from, he then leaned against one of the bed posts and was stuck by a strange sensation that he'd been here before and did exactly this. Ranma just dismissed it and made his way to a book cabinet and looked through the collection of books. When he spotted one entitled mystical weapons, he began to look through and recognised most of them after living earthbound hell.

A/N Sorry this is so short but I ran out of ideas, tell me what you think and there might be another chapter sooner rather than later, you can thank Y2Ranma for the update.